Manga and Comic Reviews
The farm life isn’t all wacky fun as Hachiken learns in vol. 8. It’s here that he finds out the reason why Komaba won’t be coming back to Ezo Ag: His family farm has gone under and now he has to help take it apart before he starts working full-time to help pay off the […]
On its own terms, this is probably the most entertaining “Mars Chronicle” has been so far. It starts off with a thrilling and creative fight between bounty hunters Dass and Gillum before segueing into the inevitably tragic end of Yoko’s mom/nanny Kyoko. There’s a bit there that chillingly illustrates how much of a psychopath Erica […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Grendel: Devil’s Odyssey #1 (of 8) I didn’t expect this: Matt Wagner is returning to his other signature creation to push it forward. After the prose/illustrated novel “Past Prime” took “Grendel” to its farthest point in the future, Wagner left it there for a decade. He spent that decade looking into the past […]
Marvel’s “Endgame” victory lap and its unveiling of “Phase 4.” The future of “The Walking Dead” on TV and on film. The final “Game of Thrones” panel with the cast. I went to none of the panels that featured these things. As is the case with all of the Comic-Cons that I attend, my focus […]
You know, I think you’ve got to go all the way back to the reign of Yoshimune — maybe Ieshige if you’re being generous — to find a time when it felt like the good women and men of this series weren’t constantly behind the eightball. Since then it’s felt like things have steadily become […]
Our long national nightmare is over! No, not that one. I’m talking about how it’s been almost three years since we’ve had any new “Jojo’s” stories in print. The last volume of “Battle Tendency” came out in August 2016 and since then Viz has been dutifully reprinting the entirety of “Stardust Crusaders” in the now-standard […]
That’s right, we’re now living in a world where “All-Rounder Meguru” comes out at such a pace (quarterly) that I can wait to review two volumes at once. Of course, that approach presents its own problems as we progress deeper into the current tournament arc. Meguru has a shot at making it to the finals, […]
In news I didn’t think I’d read anytime soon, Dark Horse announced at the Anime Expo panel today that they’ll be publishing new volumes of “The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service.” The series, about a group of mostly unemployable college students who make ends meet by taking jobs from dead people, has been on hiatus since […]
It’s not that I don’t get what ONE and Yusuke Murata are going for in this volume. They’re pitching Garo’s struggle against the members of the Hero Association who come to take him in as something noble that turns tragic. That his desire to stand up to inevitability is something to be admired. I get […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Blade of the Immortal Omnibus vol. 10 Am I playing it safe with this pick? Absolutely. Longtime readers/listeners will know that not only do I love this series, but that I thought it stuck the landing with its final volume. Given that this is the last omnibus edition of the series, this might […]